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Meaning mating meaning

What does mating mean?

mating

(= coupling, pairing) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes the casual couplings of adolescents the mating of some species occurs only in the spring

Synonyms mating synonyms

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Simple sentences

During mating season many animals exude strong fragrances.
Male octopuses die a few months after mating.

Movie subtitles

They're invited for dinner, not for mating.
The mating cry.
The glow-worm shows the mating to be near and 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
Studying the mating habits of the sandpiper.
He's one of those know-it-all types that if we flatter the wig off him, he'll chatter like a gooney bird at mating time.
Technically, she should be referred to as a princess, until after the mating flight.
Males are unequipped for survival beyond the mating and die soon after.
They continue to lay eggs from the one mating for from 15 to 17 years.
He did not dream of the lions, but instead, of a vast school of porpoises.. that stretched for eight or 10 miles, and it was in the time of their mating.
And of their mating too, and of their friendliness with each other, and their play.
This is bigger than the mating season!
A mating of eagles, Your Sanctity!
We're getting the results of the mating season about now.
And because it was safe, and he knew they would never turn on him, he developed a deep but private love for his canaries, as he watched the cycle of love and mating and issuing forth.
Would you mind not trying to drag me into your mating squabbles? It's like that, eh?
It's mating season.
Yeah, this is the mating season and they'll be out there in droves.
The mating call of the moose.
We believe that it is equally important to prepare the pupils for the mutually satisfactory mating and the successful child rearing.
Now, if they are the first to. discover the mating habits of sea horses. must we then race them to discover the inner structure of a grasshopper's brain?
If the animals don't show themselves, you give them the mating call.
The time of mating.
At that time, the mating drive outweighs all other motivations.
It would be criminal folly to resume mating on a random basis like before.
This is their mating season.
Because this probing with the sting is probably more to do with aggression than with mating.
At last, she receives him and he can take up his risky mating position, reaching right round to the female's abdomen.
The mating of cosmic deities or the hatching of a cosmic egg or maybe the intonation of some magic phrase.
Perhaps he mating season, as our groom.

News and current affairs

Germany is ablaze as its mammoth corporations are performing mating rites.
In his later work, Darwin introduced another selection criteria that may be just as important, but which has received much less attention: mating preference, or sexual selection.
As Darwin did not believe that pure aesthetics would guide female peacocks and lions in their choice of mating partners, he had to find a rational reason for females' preference for males with hindering characteristics.

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